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The Unaccountability Machine

2024-04-18 Computers
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Release : 2024-04-18
Genre : Computers
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Book Synopsis The Unaccountability Machine by : Dan Davies

Download or read book The Unaccountability Machine written by Dan Davies. This book was released on 2024-04-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Entertaining, insightful ... compelling' Financial Times 'A corporation, or a government department isn't a conscious being, but it is an artificial intelligence. It has the capability to take decisions which are completely distinct from the intentions of any of the people who compose it. And under stressful conditions, it can go stark raving mad.' When we avoid taking a decision, what happens to it? In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies examines why markets, institutions and even governments systematically generate outcomes that everyone involved claims not to want. He casts new light on the writing of Stafford Beer, a legendary economist who argued in the 1950s that we should regard organisations as artificial intelligences, capable of taking decisions that are distinct from the intentions of their members. Management cybernetics was Beer's science of applying self-regulation in organisational settings, but it was largely ignored - with the result being the political and economic crises that that we see today. With his signature blend of cynicism and journalistic rigour, Davies looks at what's gone wrong, and what might have been, had the world listened to Stafford Beer when it had the chance.

The Twittering Machine

2020-09-22 Political Science
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Release : 2020-09-22
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 310/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Twittering Machine by : Richard Seymour

Download or read book The Twittering Machine written by Richard Seymour. This book was released on 2020-09-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant probe into the political and psychological effects of our changing relationship with social media Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine. We are users, waiting for our next hit as we like, comment and share. We write to the machine as individuals, but it responds by aggregating our fantasies, desires and frailties into data, and returning them to us as a commodity experience. The Twittering Machine is an unflinching view into the calamities of digital life: the circus of online trolling, flourishing alt-right subcultures, pervasive corporate surveillance, and the virtual data mines of Facebook and Google where we spend considerable portions of our free time. In this polemical tour de force, Richard Seymour shows how the digital world is changing the ways we speak, write, and think. Through journalism, psychoanalytic reflection and insights from users, developers, security experts and others, Seymour probes the human side of the machine, asking what we’re getting out of it, and what we’re getting into. Social media held out the promise that we could make our own history–to what extent did we choose the nightmare that it has become?

Accountability in the Classroom

2021-02-05 Education
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Release : 2021-02-05
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 728/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Accountability in the Classroom by : Renee Carr

Download or read book Accountability in the Classroom written by Renee Carr. This book was released on 2021-02-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social-emotional learning (SEL) has become an important trend in education; however, it is frequently overlooked at the high school level. Arguably, SEL is even more important at this level than other grade levels for the purposes of effective college and career readiness preparation. The inclusion of SEL into school accountability systems and classrooms at all levels of K-12 education will improve SEL’s likelihood of being addressed. When it is, students are better served. This book provides an overview of the like terms for SEL, the state standards in place, and the programs that exist. Furthermore, this book provides improved understanding of SEL assessments in school accountability, practical guidance for SEL usage in the classroom, and new approaches to distance learning with an SEL approach. Specifically, little is known about the usage of SEL in the World Language classroom, so this book is useful for leaders in this content area in particular.

IUU Fishing as a Flag State Accountability Paradigm

2021-07-19 Law
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Release : 2021-07-19
Genre : Law
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Book Rating : 216/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis IUU Fishing as a Flag State Accountability Paradigm by : Mercedes Rosello

Download or read book IUU Fishing as a Flag State Accountability Paradigm written by Mercedes Rosello. This book was released on 2021-07-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds light into the uneasy relationship between the ‘IUU fishing’ designation as a governance mechanism, and international law. Building on previous literature, this original study will be of interest to international fisheries governance academics and policymakers alike.

Teacher Assemblage

2009-01-01 Education
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Release : 2009-01-01
Genre : Education
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Book Synopsis Teacher Assemblage by : P. Taylor Webb

Download or read book Teacher Assemblage written by P. Taylor Webb. This book was released on 2009-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teacher Assemblage is a groundbreaking report in the tradition of fieldwork in philosophy, using Michel Foucault’s and Gilles Deleuze’s ideas to better understand how accountability policy affected teachers. The case study examines different vectors of power and demonstrates how teachers interacted with each other, and interacted with their immediate policy environments. This unique book provides readers with grounded insights into Foucault’s and Deleuze’s ideas by paying close attention to the macro- and micro- political worlds of schools as teachers struggle with new forms of performance accountability. The book illustrates ideas of power, politics, and policy with a unique use of surrealist art to illustrate the philosophical ideas at play in the case study. The book will have a wide appeal to teachers, teacher educators, educational researchers, policy and curriculum scholars, art aficionados, and those interested in the thoughts of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze.

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